In the commodity market, gold bears were put to the sword overnight as a weaker dollar and geopolitical tensions around Ukraine boosted the metals safe haven appeal. A report from the Ghana Statistical Service showed that producer inflation in the mi...

The spotlight remains on oil this morning. Morocco: Data from Morocco’s central banked showed that the country’s foreign exchange reserves rose to $37.05bn by January 7, a 6.8% rise on a year-on-year basis. In a report published on Monday, global cre...

Commodities are in focus this morning. Equally faith in the longer term strength of the dollar is fading and this could well underpin the yellow metal going forward. Specifically, tax income in the six months through December grew by nearly a third t...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) plans to cut the mobile termination rate (MTR) from KES0.99 to KES0.12 per minute. Airtel Kenya and Telkom will benefit from the change, while Safaricom will lose out. Under the new MTR, this would have been...

The base metals outlook continues to be supported by supply chain issues that are compounding on one another. Various LATAM sources of key base metals have reported lower output in recent data, while geopolitics in Europe and the threat of economic s...

Industrial metals prices continue to be strung between the specter of insufficient global supply and some uncertainty surrounding the Chinese and European growth outlooks. While the increase was marginal, this was the fastest pace of price growth in ...